Hoag Hospital, in an agreement announced with the California Attorney General's Office on Friday, softened the fallout from its decision last spring to ban elective abortions.
The agreement, finalized late last month, makes it easier for women to get the procedures done ... Full story »

Colorado, with the nation's first law allowing recreational sales of marijuana, is seeing violence that has raised concerns among police, prosecutors and pot advocates that a black market for marijuana is alive and well in Colorado.
Pot advocates say the state is in ... Full story »

The Obama administration will re-evaluate its role in foundering Middle East peace talks following actions by Israel and the Palestinians that have brought the negotiations to virtual collapse, Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday.
A visibly downbeat Kerry, who has ... Full story »

WESTMINSTER All morning Friday from her hospital bed, Helen Nguyen kept asking about her daughter.
“Please help her,” Nguyen pleaded to several relatives who crowded into her room at UCI Medical Center in Orange.
She made ... Full story »

WASHINGTON Robert Drissen sat in his Fullerton home March 28 when the 5.1 earthquake hit, sounding “like a freight train was going to come through the wall.”
The next day, he inspected his home, found no cracks but confided to his wife, &... Full story »

YORBA LINDA California's record-breaking drought could be helped by this:
Fake poop.
So say two engineers who play with it in the name of science.
John Koeller of Yorba Linda and Bill Gauley of Ontario, Canada, aren'... Full story »